No Stamp Act teapot
ca. 1765
The use of a teapot to protest the Stamp Act of 1765 suggests the symbolic value of tea, as well as the ubiquity of its consumption.
A View of the Obelisk erected under Liberty-Tree in Boston on the Rejoicings for the Repeal of the -- Stamp Act 1766. To every lover of Liberty, this Plate is humbly dedicated, by her true born sons, in Boston New England
Paul Revere
1766
The four sides of Revere's imagined monument depict 1) America in distress, threatened by the loss of liberty, 2) America imploring the aid of her patrons, 3) America enduring the conflict, and 4) America's liberty restored by King George III.
The Repeal or the Funeral Procession, of Miss Americ-Stamp
After Benjamin Wilson
London, March 1766
A satirical print which contrasts a somber procession of Birtish ministers with a background of flourishing trade. Published three days after the repeal of the Stamp Tax. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, sent copies of this print to his wife in Philadelphia, and reproductions were soon advertised in Philadelphia newspapers.